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A character is attacked by a heavily [[Knight in Shining Armor|armored]] [[Black Knight|knight]].
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* In ''[[Slayers]] Evolution-R'' the cast meets one of these when they begin their search for the Hellmaster's Jar. This armor is in fact possessed by the soul of Naga the Serpent, who had a run-in with another cursed jar. In the process Naga lost her memories and began referring to herself as Nama.
** In The same story arc they help a squad of animated armors recover the Helmet of one of their members.
** In the OVA Jeoffory's Knighthood, the [[Big Bad]] uses a legion of these guys as his [[Mook
* Seen in an episode of ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'': while on a desert planet, Cobra and Lady are confronted to what appears to be animated empty suits of armor. {{spoiler|They are in fact a species of ''telekinetic or haunted swords'' controlling the humanoid armors to move around.}}
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', there's one of at least lich level. Formerly a {{spoiler|king with too much a fancy armor.}}
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* The animated armor army from ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''.
* McGonagall and Flitwick enchant the armour of the castle to fight in the [[Final Battle]] of ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows''. This was hinted at in various places in the earlier books, if you paid attention.
* ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' books have the wirewolves, daemons inhabiting suits of armour. The fething things are definite [[Lightning Bruiser
* Lancelot fights against an animated suit of armor in the [[Roger Zelazny]] short story "The Last Defender of Camelot".
* Sort of subverted and played straight at the same time in the [[Culture]] novel ''Matter''. Some characters lack the training and reflexes to use the Culture's combat suits in a fight, so their targeting and evasion systems are slaved to the onboard computers.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'':
** The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting had
** Subverted several times in module ''I6 [[Ravenloft]]''. In a spooky Gothic setting, the [[Player Character
** Module S4 ''The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth''. One room has three sets of empty, magically animated suits of armor. In order to escape a PC must defeat a set of armor and put on its helmet.
* The [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rubric_Marines Rubric Marines] of the [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Thousand_Sons Thousand Sons] in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''.
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* ''[[City of Villains]]'' has the very rare Living Armor boss.
* The Eldar in [[Dawn of War]] 2 have the Wraith Guards, piles of metal inhabited by the erm... ghosts of fallen Eldar.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' has possessed suits of [[Knight Templar|order-of-the-sword]] as [[
** ''Devil May Cry 3'' has Dullahans,
* A common enemy in the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series.
** In ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', Restless Armours are one of the recruitable [[Mons]], ''and'' can be found as an equippable (and cursed) armor.
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* Nightmare from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' (see [[Animated Armor/Image Links|Image Links]]) spent some time this way, at least from the third game on.
* ''[[Vagrant Story]]'''s Dullahan, Last Crusader, Nightstalker, and Dark Crusader are all suits of armor that [[Genius Loci|Le?onde]] has infused with the power of the Dark. Some are sent to bar Ashley's way by Sydney himself; others are reanimated by the [[Corrupt Church|Knights of the Cross]].
* The character Grey in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' had his soul bound to an empty suit of armor, as well as Barbarossa and his [[Palette Swap
* The Durahan from the ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' series.
* Bishamon from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' is a suit of samurai armor possessed by an evil spirit.
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* The Fright Knight from [[Danny Phantom]] is an arguable example; he's a ghost, so he doesn't really have a physical body of any kind, but his appearance is that of a suit of [[Black Knight]] armor with glowing eyes, and when he's defeated in his debut episode, it's shown crumbling away to reveal nothing inside.
* [[Beauty and The Beast]], while Cogsworth is showing Belle around the enchanted castle.
* In the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode ''Avalon'', a pair of
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